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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
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Character Himself Transformation
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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Independent Life Trust Yourself
Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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Growth People
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Himself Man Noble Philosophy Soul Writing
We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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Destroy Live Past
Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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Book Mindset Reading Strong Thinking
A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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Heart Word
Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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Ignorance Understand World
On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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Choice Deep World
Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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Encouragement Inspirational Result Team
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
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Happiness Joy Man Value
When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.
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Alive Kill Live Lost Soul
One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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Exception Oneself Ordinary
Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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Believe Opinion People
I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
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Feeling Herself Myself Philosophy
And all must follow in my wake.
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Myself Wake Up
Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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Difficult Inspirational
We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection–which we have ourselves created.
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Creation Happiness Himself Ideal Kind Ourselves Perfection Quality
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
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Empty Feeling Garden Nature Spirit Thinking World
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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Danger Imagination Taste
Remember to live.
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Live One Liner Remember
Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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Heart Judgement Myself Ourselves Pursue
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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Importance Mercy Worth
To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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Limitation Oneself
In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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Life One Liner Reflection
Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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Feeling Heart Philosophy

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